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We called it "on the strap". I imagine there were a few local variations of it.

Thanks Mike

Mike, my first thoughts are it could be Birmingham as the houses look like back to backs. I am not aware of other towns or cities who built them but would not put money on it. A revers image search shows the same image on face book as Brearley Street, Newtown. Numbers 42 and 44

The local field looked super early this morning

Happy birthday have a super day

Post the video to You Tube then post a link here

What an amazing story, thank you for sharing it

Happy birthday Pete, have a super day

Happy birthday have a super day

Ah I am indeed, thanks.

My dad had one late 60’s. it was quite roomy for a small car, but they had gearbox problems. Big double ball race bearing on the main shaft would disintegrate and with the gearbox and engine sharing the same oil the swarf from the bearing cage would get pumped all through the main bearing and...

They are the center post of some Avery Merchant or Balance scales

Happy birthday Brenda have a great day

It looks like the new station construction works are now complete: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7kp1r28npo

There was a brook in Spring Lane that seemed to rise locally in Erdington

Behind Kingstanding swimming baths. Use to have a yard called Kings Coal Yard that later became a Council Housing Department Depot.

This is the power generating house from the Beaufort Cinema

Thanks for sharing that one lyn, a super nostalgic look back at Christmas past. A lot of memory invoking images there of the things I remember as a kid. That giant illuminated S at the start and shop names long gone.

What you have there is a marriage of an electric lighting column, possibly a Group-B streetlight from the late 50’s - 60’s that been retrofitted with a Gaslamp top. The electrical cover at the base would have had the city coat of arms cast onto the surface. Here is a thread all about...